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Freight Costs: 5 tips to get the biggest bang for your buck

FreightWaves SONAR

Freight costs and budget adherence are among the most important and often overlooked aspects of transportation management. In most industries, supply chain logistics account for 5% to 50% of a product’s total cost.” Measuring performance with transportation KPIs and freight data is getting easier. Think about this.

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Conducting a Trucking RFP: Tips for Shippers to Optimize Contract Freight

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With that in mind, the trucking RFP has come into play as a more significant undertaking for 2021 contracts as the freight market saw volatility in 2020 on the spot market due to historic tender rejections and volumes adding to increased prices. A confident, data-driven trucking RFP undertaking can make a big difference in freight spend.

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10 shipper of choice tips to aid in securing capacity and carrier relationships

FreightWaves SONAR

Here are 10 shipper of choice tips to help enterprises secure capacity and improve relationships with carriers, not to mention transportation brokers. Ensuring rapid delivery time along the full supply chain earns a company the reputation of shipper of choice. Focus on dock experiences for drivers.

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2022’s Top 5 Logistics Challenges and Parade’s Tips for Overcoming Them

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2021 was a year full of uncertainty for everyone across the globe, but those uncertainties hit supply chains particularly hard. However, industries like the automotive industry and some consumer electronics where supply chain issues have created shortages are likely to continue to see high demand.

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[WHITE PAPER] How to measure freight data analytics value and why backtesting proves it

FreightWaves SONAR

According to Dan Weinberger of Supply Chain Brain , “In a time of increasingly unpredictable consumer demand, traditional supply chains are struggling to keep up. Organizations that are still employing traditional methods will struggle to streamline end-to-end supply chain processes. Request a SONAR Demo.

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7 tips for carriers to use analytics to improve carrier operations

FreightWaves SONAR

Trucking carriers and freight managers have much to keep up with in the shipper and trucking industry. This becomes especially true today during recovery and continued disruptions and deviations in the freight market — two of the industry’s primary goals being a full recovery and adjustment. Capacity load data statistics.

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How Freight Management Analytics Simplify Logistics

FreightWaves SONAR

And even the freight management analytics of five years ago do not necessarily respond well to today’s shifting and changing market. And that all begins with deploying advanced freight management analytical resources and tools that actively work to lower all risks, ranging from detention through final mile management.